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Creating a subprocess again and attaching to parent process

davanna — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:34:59 GMT

I am evaluating Activiti workflow for using it in our company. I wanted to know how do we handle some of the Business Use cases here. We have a main 'application' business process and it has numerous steps. I am modeling the 'application' as main process and the steps as subprocesses. One of the ste

Re: Creating a subprocess again and attaching to parent process

hari — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:23:11 GMT

Hi,

We have a very similar requirement as yours. The way we addressed is by saving the photos to alfresco and having the doc id inserted into one of the application tables which holds doc id and its corresponding process instance id. So no matter how many documents they upload, they all are relevant to just one process instance.
I recommend having a different Identifier(like application id or something) also to be saved along with doc Id and proc inst id so that you can fetch the documents easily when required at a later point of time when the process is completed.

Re: Creating a subprocess again and attaching to parent process

davanna — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:17:12 GMT

Thanks Asriharikiran for your input. We are following similar approach of using the processInstanceId saved in our db.